what this means for the economy? it is scary. the genius of our country is the middle class. the fact that most of the growth comes from the middle class. most of the new ideas come from the middle class. think of steve jobs and people like that created these businesses. he was out of the middle class. without a middle class we re in trouble. the mitt dill class is not going away but rich are get of getting richer and middle class is getting squeezed why? there are lot of reasons. we ve have period of unemployment employment for so long. so when people don t have jobs that s key. also inflation is hurting people. inflation is squeezing the middle class. this government thought and federal reserve thought they could help get us out of the recession by increasing inflation, keeping interest rates low. what that has done made our trips to the supermarket very expensive and our trips to getting a load of gas very expensive as well. that is squeezing the middle class. but the key is growt